marquis of jingan

Chapter 205 Gu Hengbo

The ass decides the head.

Whatever position a person is in, he will naturally think about something.

Those who sell umbrellas look forward to rain, and those who sell fans look forward to summer.

Human nature is like this, since ancient times.

This is what the Zhao family looks like now. They have gained huge benefits from the confrontation between the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Naturally, they don't want this pattern to be broken, and they don't even want to see someone try to change the pattern.

Therefore, for a person like Shen Yi who keeps saying he wants to look north, the Zhao family certainly doesn't like it. For the Zhao family, the best situation is to maintain the status quo. Get into a fight and let the Huaihe Navy show their status.

After hearing Zhao Zhuo's words, Fan Dongcheng's eyes flickered, and then he lowered his head and smiled slightly: "Brother Zhao said that a person like Shen Yi only knows how to please the king, wags his lips and tongue, and has no merit in the country. The traitor of the dynasty!"

"If he becomes an official in the court in the future, maybe he will become a disaster for my Da Chen..."

Hearing Fan Dongcheng's words, Zhao Zhuo glanced at him and frowned slightly: "I know what you're thinking, but our Zhao family is a general, and although I have an errand in the court, all I do is idle and idle. Live, my house..."

He said slowly: "I can't interfere with the imperial court's selection of talents."

Fan Dongcheng smiled and said: "Brother Zhao misunderstood. Of course, my younger brother didn't want you to interfere in the government affairs, but even if Shen Yi becomes an official in the future, with the influence of the Zhao family in the court, it would be easy to push Shen Yi down."

Fan Dongcheng said softly: "Young master, you think, this Shen Yi is the most vicious, and also the most famous among young people. If the Zhao family presses him down, his future will be wiped out. In the future, in Jiankang City, Who else dares to bring up the delusional idea of ​​looking north?"

Zhao Zhuo lowered his head and thought for a while, then glanced at Fan Dongcheng, and suddenly smiled: "Listening to Dongcheng's words, it seems that you and this Shen Yi are not just having some festivals."

"Actually, it's really some small holidays, little things, and my younger brother doesn't pay much attention to them."

Fan Dongcheng glanced at the opposite side lightly, then smiled and said: "It's just that this Shen Yi comes from a small family, and what seems small to me may be a big thing to him, so this small festival should be taken care of by him." Not too small."

What Fan Dongcheng said was a bit cryptic, but Zhao Zhuo didn't have the intention to get to the bottom of it. He lowered his head and thought about it seriously, and then said: "This Shen Yi should still be a freshman, even if everything goes well in his examination room, when he enters the court Tang, I don’t know how many years later, let’s take a look, if he really enters the court after a few years, and still has the virtue of clamoring to look north, then my Zhao family really can’t tolerate him.”

Speaking of this, Zhao Zhuo glanced at Fan Dongcheng with a calm expression, "Since you are going to level Liangzi for Dongcheng, the Fan family, especially Fan Shilang, will have to follow suit."

Fan Dongcheng looked embarrassed, because it was difficult for him to influence his fifth uncle, Fan Shilang.

But after thinking about it, he still lowered his head and gritted his teeth: "Brother Zhao, don't worry, I will try my best when the time comes..."

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Shen Yi on the other side, of course, didn't know that the two guys on the opposite side were suffocating him, because it was the first time to visit the brothel, and it was the annual oiran meeting, so Shen Yi was also a little curious, so he followed Zhao Er and was quite serious Watching a performance by a group of little girls.

The reason why it is a little girl is that in principle, the oiran will only choose girls who are under the age of 16, and even in fact, those who participate in this kind of oiran meeting are generally little girls under the age of 16.

After all, women in brothels, especially these so-called famous prostitutes, usually start to find a way out for themselves when they are over 16 years old, and usually choose a good family as a concubine.

Because the age of marriage in this era is too young, in the age of thirteen or fourteen, women in brothels already have marriage anxiety at the age of 16.

So tonight's oiran meeting, nearly twenty girls participated, most of them were fifteen or sixteen years old. After all the girls finished their performance, Zhao Er's expression suddenly became excited. He reached out and patted Shen Yi's shoulder, his tone a little excited : "Qilang, Miss Gu is here!"

It's late now, and Shen Yi has been in Chunyi Building for more than an hour. After more than an hour, Shen Yi naturally asked and understood the origin of this Miss Gu.

Miss Gu's name is Gu Hengbo, and she has been the most famous courtesan in Jiankang City in recent years, and she has been the oiran of the Qinhuai River for two consecutive years.

This Miss Gu is proficient in both piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. What's more, she is also quite talented in poetry. So far, she has written many excellent works, which are widely circulated in Jiankang City.

Miss Gu is already this year.

In the prostitution industry, this age is not too old, but in the "famous courtesan" industry, usually at the age of seventeen or eighteen, they are already thinking about getting married.

Miss Gu, however, still participated in the Oiran Conference this year.

At this time, Miss Gu was wearing a bright red dress, standing pretty on the stage. She first saluted Sizuo, and then said in a crisp voice: "Sisters are in front of you, and my family is making a fool of yourself."

As soon as she finished her opening line, the four seats burst into applause. In each private room and on the stands, red flowers were thrown onto the stage as if they didn't need money.

After a while, a layer of red flowers was piled up on the table.

The craziest one is Zhao Jizhou.

I saw Zhao Er holding the wooden box in the room in his hand, calling Miss Gu's name, and then directly poured down a box of little red flowers.

Thousands of taels of silver turned into red paper flowers fluttered in the air and landed on the stage.

The woman in red wearing a veil on the stage also saw this scene. She looked up at the second floor, then nodded slightly to Zhao Jizhou and smiled sweetly.

This smile directly made Zhao Erhun laugh away, and he would just stand in front of the window and giggle.

And Shen Yi was also standing by the window, looking at the red flowers on the stage, he couldn't help feeling secretly.

"This is the fan economy. A little lady standing on the stage is enough for ordinary people to spend hundreds of years..."

At this moment, Gu Hengbo was looking at Zhao Jizhou, and took a look at Shen Yi by the way. Her gaze stayed on Shen Yi for a while, then she hugged the pipa and sat on the chair on the stage.

The beauty lowered her eyebrows and twirled the strings of the pipa lightly, the sound of the pipa suddenly moved, and there was no sound in the Chunyi Building.

Gu Hengbo is known as a master on the pipa. He claims that he has no opponent after he has completed his skills at the age of 15. Naturally, he plays the pipa very well. After the end of a piece of pipa, he received countless applause.

At the end of a piece of pipa, she was still sitting on the chair with a soft and pleasant voice.

"The concubine heard a poem about the Qinhuai River before, but there was no song, so it was hard to sing it out. After thinking hard for half a year, I finally got the pipa song. Please appreciate it..."

After all, she took a deep breath, as if she was a little nervous because she played this piece publicly for the first time.

Soon, her slender jade fingers moved again.

A piece of pipa music that is slightly soft but also firm, jumped out from her fingertips.

Immediately afterwards, the beauty closed her eyes and sang slowly.

"Qin Huai is speechless, talking about the setting sun..."

As soon as the libretto was sung, Zhao Jizhou couldn't help applauding.

On the other side, Zhao Zhuo and Fan Dongcheng frowned slightly in unison.

(End of this chapter)